The inner watch dial is like any other with a date window, but that mechanism is suspended above a lower dial against which the altimeter (yellow) and barometer (red) markers leap out. The immediate ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says altimeter in the Black Hawk helicopter may have malfunctioned before the DCA mid-air collision with an American Airlines jet. All 67 people aboard died.

Black Hawk helicopter’s altimeter may have been inaccurate, pilots may have missed some calls from control tower ...

Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner said his firm bought a "small" position in PayPal just one day after Ritholtz CEO Josh Brown sold.

The Senate Commerce Committee’s reconciliation proposal to sell slices of spectrum is generating warnings that the move will interfere with sensitive aviation instruments like radio altimeters ...

The AV-4117 Hawker Harrier HUD Automatic can’t quite fly, but it’s sure to catch eyes thanks to how its dial resembles the jet’s luminous green head-up display. A glance at the watch mimics ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will give airlines another year to fix or replace airplane altimeters that can't filter out cellular transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. In a ...

The Ziplevel Pro-2000 High Precision Altimeter is a precise pressurized hydrostatic altimeter that can replace laser levels on job sites. One person working alone can set up in minutes to level ...

The altimeter that [Marc] dissects in the video below was made by Kollsman, which is what prompted us to recall this recent project that turned a jet engine tachometer into a CPU utilization gauge.